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Anna Boleyn
(1920)
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This early Ernst Lubitsch feature film stars Emil Jannings and Henny Porten.
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 Kino International
2006 DVD edition
Anna Boleyn (1920), color-toned black & white, 118 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K517, UPC 7-38329-05172-3.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 16 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 5 December 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition has been mastered from the 35mm restoration print prepared by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung. Our first look at the disc shows us a relatively clear, natural-speed video transfer from a very-good source print that has been sepia-toned. Intertitles have been color-tinted blue.
The film is presented with a music score composed and performed on piano by Javier Perez de Azpeitia.
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 Eureka Entertainment
2010 DVD edition
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921), black & white, color-toned black & white, and color and black & white, 581 minutes total, BBFC Classification PG, including Anna Boleyn (1920), color-toned black & white, 118 minutes, BBFC Classification PG.
Eureka Entertainment,
unknown catalog number (MoC98), unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc (six DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; six slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; £49.99.
Release date: 25 January 2010.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from the same 35mm restoration materials prepared by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung as for the 2006 Kino International edition noted above.
Among the supplemental material is a short essay on the film by David Cairns.
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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Other silent era ERNST LUBITSCH films available on home video
Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video..
Other silent era EMIL JANNINGS films available on home video.
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